Movie Reviews8.2/10
Full Metal Jacket at 39: Kubrick’s Two-Part War Film Still Lands Like a Fist
A grim study of a training camp and a ruined city during a war, joined at a rough, telling mark.
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Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews7.9/10
37 Years On, Do the Right Thing Still Lands Like News
One street, one day of heat in Brooklyn: a study of a city near ruin, still striking as news decades after it first appeared.
Movie Reviews8.2/10
Die Hard Remains the High Mark of the Action Genre
An officer with no shoes battles a dozen armed men within one building on a night meant for holiday cheer, in a tale that endures.
Movie Reviews7.1/10
41 Years On, Romero’s Bunker Finale Still Argues Humans Are the Real Threat
A grim, entombed chapter of Romero's dead films: soldiers, researchers, and one strange captive prisoner beneath the earth. Score: 7 of 10.
Movie Reviews7.8/10
Brazil at 41: Gilliam’s Paper-Choked Machine World Still Holds Up
A clerk dreams of escape amid wires, forms, and stamps in Gilliam's dark, uneasy vision of a controlled society.
Movie Reviews7.7/10
Blue Velvet at 40: Lynch’s Ear in the Field Still Cuts Deep
A severed ear, a singer, and a violent man beneath a town too perfect to be true — Blue Velvet still troubles decades on.
Movie Reviews8.1/10
44 Years On, No Sci-Fi Film Has Matched What Blade Runner Built
A wet, shadowed city holds a hunter and the android he pursues in this careful vision of a future not yet arrived.
Movie Reviews8.5/10
Zemeckis’s Time Travel Comedy Still Runs Like a Well-Made Machine: 8.5 of 10
A boy, a car built for one purpose, and a town seen twice over: Back to the Future remains a tale of odd delight.
Movie Reviews8.4/10
Forty Years Ago, Cameron Swapped Haunted-House Horror for Marines and Machine Guns — and Made a Sequel That Rewrote the Rules
A woman returns to the source of her old terror, this time among soldiers, and finds the dread has multiplied.
Movie Reviews8/10
38 Years After Its Release, Akira Remains the Benchmark for Animated Film
A look at Akira, the ruined city, the growing power that breaks a friend apart, and the drawn work that still holds up decades on.